The 33rd Paris Olympic Games is about to open, and China has sent a strong lineup of 405 athletes to participate. In 1924, 100 years ago, the 8th Paris Olympics sent an invitation to China, but four Chinese people missed the Olympics. The micro-movie "That Departure a Hundred Years Ago", which was released online on July 24, uses AI to restore the true process of the Chinese people's first registration for the Olympic Games 100 years ago.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's first Olympic gold medal and the first televised Olympic Games. "Walking with You" launched by China Central Radio and Television Station CCTV witnessed the 40-year all-media search for the Olympics, and Creative launched the first generative AI Micro film "That Departure a Hundred Years Ago". Based on first-hand historical documents that have never been released, the film tells an Olympic story from a century ago: four tennis players decided to represent China in the Olympics for the first time, but due to the lack of government support and strong promotion from national sports organizations, they The trip to the Olympics ultimately failed to materialize.
sports carries the dream of national prosperity and national rejuvenation. From signing up for the first time in 1924 but ultimately failing to make the trip, to Xu Haifeng winning China's first Olympic gold medal in 1984; from the first broadcast of the Olympics 40 years ago to today's main station's "China Red" 8K broadcast vehicle shining on the streets of Paris; from a century ago "Three Questions about the Olympics" By successfully hosting the Olympic Games in 2008 and the Winter Olympics in 2022, Beijing became the first "Double Olympic City"; from the century-old Olympic dream to the dream of becoming a sports power, the film shows the great changes in Chinese sports in the past 100 years. , allowing the audience to deeply feel the historical true meaning of "Strong sports will make China strong, and the prosperity of the country will make sports prosperous".
(China’s official registration form sent to the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee by Gray, secretary of the Far East Sports Commission in 1924)
(Letter from Wei Rongluo, captain of the Chinese tennis team, to Gray in 1924: expressing his abandonment of participating in the 1924 Paris Olympics)
at the same time , the film’s creative method of meticulously restoring historical details and reconstructing historical time and space scenes also provides new ideas for AI application innovation. With the innovation and evolution of AI technology, the current domestic AI-generated video technology has been upgraded from the previous hyper-realistic stage to the current hyper-realistic stage. With the help of generative AI technology, the creative team not only achieved innovation in visual effects, but also truly restored historical details. The work recreates the historical moment when Chinese athletes signed up to participate in the Paris Olympics 100 years ago, opening up a new field of AI application.
(the historical prototypes of the four main characters and the characters in the film created by AI technology)
(partial AI generation process diagram)
The visual team relies on real historical character prototypes and precious archives released for the first time. New domestic ai visual large model Together with the imr original mixed reality production system of China Central Radio and Television Station, we designed the imr ai visual effects production process to achieve a new film special effects production model that deeply integrates original design, generative AI technology and physical simulation, real-time rendering, and live shooting. In terms of sound, the three-dimensional brilliant sound technology with independent intellectual property rights was used to produce realistic three-dimensional spatial environmental sounds for various virtual scenes in the film, and to build differentiated sound field spaces for different dialogue scenarios. Combined with the mobile binaural rendering technology of 3D Colorful Sound, users can also get an extraordinary immersive listening experience through headphones.
(original ai digital assets of 1,194 shots in the entire film, constructing a hyper-realistic black and white image space)
The creative team set the film's image style to black and white tone, and used 1,194 original ai digital shots to construct a narrative rhythm layout The orderly, real and natural character arrangement, and reasonable and atmospheric scene design create a strong space-time contrast effect, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the vicissitudes of China's sports development over the past century.
